Prevention and

Mitigation of Bush

Fire in Australia

Group 1

Boxuan Chen, Xuanhan Chen, Yuyang Chen, Qiao Kang,

Xingchen Li

MFE634 Presentation 2

Feb 20, 2020

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Topics to Cover

• Problem Statement

• Process Flow Chart

• Internal & External Failure

• List of Individual to Interview

• Interview Question & Answer

• Six Sigma

• Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)

• Affinity Diagram

• Fishbone Chart

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Problem Statement

Recent bushfire occurring in Australia is claimed to be the worst wildfire in decades. Several uncontrolled fires began in June 2019, developed to hundreds of fires still burning today. As of Jan.14 2020, Over 34 people were killed, 5900 houses are destroyed, some endangered species may be driven to extinction, billions of dollars are wasted.

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Flow Chart

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Internal & External Failure

Internal Failure External Failure

Failure of alert system Drought because low precipitation

Lack of evacuation plan Dense forest and plantation

Slow reaction of first response team Traffic jam & bad road condition

No prevention actions Wind accelerate spread

Outdated fire department equipment Lack of fireman

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List of Individual to Interview • Director of fire department

• Families of victims

• Wildlife Conservancy

• Nature conservation concil

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Question & Answer

• Director of fire department:

What preparations did you do before the fire broke out? We have multiple solutions to deal with wildfires, like equipment and manpower. But this year's wildfire is much larger than expected

• Families of victims:

Do you think you have any serious property damage?

Our house, car, and property in the house are basically burnt out. Although we have insurance, we still have a lot of

losses.

• Wildlife Conservancy:

How is this year different than previous wildfires？

For our part, the number of wild animal disasters has increased and we need more veterinarians to treat injured wild animals.

• Nature conservation concil:

How much has the fire affected the local natural environment?

Although mountain fires occur almost every year, this year's scale is so large that people, wildlife and vegetation have suffered losses, and the balance has been broken in a short time.

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Six Sigma

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Six Sigma

Design

• The high temperature& thunder

• Lack of resource

• Too late to rescue (government)

• Information is blocked

• Many flammable wastes

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Six Sigma

Measure

• Verify the project need

• Documenrt the process

• Plan for data collection

• Measure the Process Capability

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Six Sigma

Analyze

• Data collection(Temperature from August to September)

• Hypothesis test

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Six Sigma

Analyze

Temperature in Aug 2019 (Before)

18 16 21

17 16 18

20 17 18

17 18 25

20 20 20

20 24 15

22 17 15

20 20 19

17 16 13

15 20 15

Temperature in Sep 2019 (After)

22 20 23

19 26 22

22 19 21

27 18 20

21 27 20

28 27 21

18 15 26

19 17 18

17 20 21

16 21 17

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Six Sigma

Analyze

Descriptive Statistics: Before

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Six Sigma

Analyze

Descriptive Statistics: After

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Six Sigma

Improve

• Improvement Strategy

• Process Failure Mode and Effect analysis (FMEA)

• Design of Experiments (DOE)

• List of remedies selected

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Six Sigma

Control (use 5S method)

• Sort: Identify the reason and region of bushfire

• Set in order: Flow chart for dealing with emergency bushfire

• Shine: Staff (fireman、policeman) should follow the original plan to deal with bushfire immediately

• Standardize: Make a checklist to see whether all the equipment and staff are working well

• Sustain: Keep everyone in order and save the damage of bushfire

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Affinity Diagram

Causes House Fire department Policeman Medical service

Lighting strike Flammable materials Response time Response time Response time

Humans Location Equipment Traffic condition Medicine stock

Climate change Smoke detection Regular training Capability Medical equipment

Greenhouse gas

emissions Extingishing equipent Communication Logistical support Medical resources

Arson attack Administration Number of people Transportation

Real-time feedback Accessibility

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Quality Function Deployment

To identify and carry the voice of the customer through each stage of product or service development and implementation

• Customer Requirements • Planning Matrix • Technical Requirements • Targets • Interrelationships • Roof

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Customer Needs (who was impacted by the Bush Fire)

• People • Buildings and Infrastructure • Commerce • Toursim • Species diversity • Agriculture

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Planning Matrix

•Quantifying the customers' requirement priorities

•Adjusting priorities based on issues concerning the design team

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To be improved

• Regular training

• Accurate detection

• Number of firefighters

• Adminstration

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HOQ

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HOQ

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COPQ Process Internal Failure External Failure Appraisal Prevention

Signal of Bushfire Dense Houses Building materials are mostly flammable

Global Warming Arson Insufficient rainfall

Building houses with non-flammable materials Reduced house density Prepare for extreme weather

Government lack of labor lack of equipment

Insufficient funds

Ask for help, funding and equipment from surrounding countries

Post-disaster relief (animals)

Many animals live in the forest and have not been treated professionally after the fire

Establish animal rescue stations in response to fire

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Fishbone Chart

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Thank you!